Multicultural Education category: 1336 books
Disposed to Learn
Schooling, Ethnicity and the Scholarly Habitus
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Disposed to Learn explores the relationship between ethnicity and dispositions towards learning, with a focus on primary school students of Chinese, Pasifika and Anglo Australian backgrounds. The authors challenge the tendency towards the essentializing of ethnicity within multiculturalism to argue...
Women in Academia Crossing North–South Borders
Gender, Race, and Displacement
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
Drawing broadly on decolonial studies, postcolonial feminist scholarship, and studies on identity, this interdisciplinary edited volume brings together personal accounts written by female scholars who migrated from Latin America and joined universities in the Global North (Australia, the United States,...
by Denis Cosgrove
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1999
Mappings explores what mapping has meant in the past and how its meanings have altered. How have maps and mapping served to order and represent physical, social and imaginative worlds? How has the practice of mapping shaped modern seeing and knowing? In what ways do contemporary changes in our experience...
Coyote and Raven Go Canoeing
Coming Home to the Village
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2006
In a gesture toward traditional First Nations orality, Peter Cole blends poetic and dramatic voices with storytelling. A conversation between two tricksters, Coyote and Raven, and the colonized and the colonizers, his narrative takes the form of a canoe journey. Cole draws on traditional Aboriginal...
by Magdalena Matulewicz
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2013
This time we will take you to the Costa Rican rainforest full of stunning colours, howling monkeys and hidden waterfalls. Dare yourself cross hanging bridges, explore volcanic craters and feed baby toucans with us. Get ready for your boiling adventure!
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Meaning of Ladies Names
700 Ladies Names Explained
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
Discover the meaning, and origin of your name, of your friends’ names and of your favorite artists, in this eBook that explains hundreds of girl names.
Learn, enjoy and discover more about the meaning of 700 names, or choose the right name for you baby girl.
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Operation Goat Snatch (Act I)
Operation Goat Snatch, #1
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Act I of the Operation Goat Snatch series, by Issac Stolzenbach, is a Kentucky hillbilly’s creative nonfiction romp through the sticks of redneck country in Central Florida. In this series, the author is attempting to prove that he can be kind to a righthanded reader — a preemptive effort to make...
Actions Speak Louder than Words
Community Activism as Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
How do educators engage students in community action projects without telling them what to think, how to think, or what to do? Is it possible to integrate social justice organizing into the curriculum without imposing one’s political views on students? In Actions Speak Louder than Words, longtime...
by Jobe Leonard
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Through this coming-of-age true story, we get to see a glimpse of Jobe's life during his most challenging years, a point when he undergoes a lot of growing up and changes. His circumstances of living in a foreign country also causes him to have unique personal growth. We enter Jobe's life when he...
Racism and Cultural Studies
Critiques of Multiculturalist Ideology and the Politics of Difference
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2002
In Racism and Cultural Studies E. San Juan Jr. offers a historical-materialist critique of practices in multiculturalism and cultural studies. Rejecting contemporary theories of inclusion as affirmations of the capitalist status quo, San Juan envisions a future of politically equal and economically...
Outbursts!
A Gay and Lesbian Erotic Thesaurus
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2003
Erotic slang words from Great Britain, Canada, the United States, Australia, and other English-speaking nations number well into the tens of thousands. But the history of terms used to describe the sexual activities of gays and lesbians have opposing sources: one, the discreet networks of gay men...
Deconstructing Privilege
Teaching and Learning as Allies in the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Although scholarly examinations of privilege have increased in recent decades, an emphasis on privilege studies pedagogy remains lacking within institutions. This edited collection explores best practices for effective teaching and learning about various forms of systemic group privilege such as that...
Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence
Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2015
Learn to talk about race openly, honestly, and productively
Most people avoid discussion of race-related topics because of the strong emotions and feelings of discomfort that inevitably accompany such conversations. Rather than endure the conflict of racial realities, many people choose instead...
Queer Ideas
The Kessler Lectures in Lesbian & Gay Studies
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Exploring questions of sexuality and gender, this volume brings together ten core thinkers in the field of lesbian and gay studies and provides an essential introduction to this interdisciplinary field as well as the processes by which new-and queer-ideas are thought into being.The collection begins...